Fly-by-night
fly-by-night (adjective) - someone who wants to make money very quickly but not honestly, without caring about the quality of the product or service (because they won't be around long enough to make customer satisfaction necessary)
Example sentences:
* Although they planned to take tough action against fly-by-night operators who entered the market with deceptive products and services, they found it difficult to bring legal action against them.
* Consumer Protection agencies are cautioning consumers about dealing with unlicensed fly-by-night finance brokers.
* To protect yourself against fly by night operators, be on your guard, don’t put your trust in “bargains” and be careful about where you place your savings.
* Fly-by-night operations have theadvantage that once the product is sold, they do not have to face complaints because they never had any intention of fulfilling their promise.
* Beware of fly-by-night construction firms who do poor quality work, overcharge, or fail to complete jobs.
* India's fly-by-night IT schools cause mayhem among students when they realise they lost all their money and learned nothing.
* Imagine that one Monday a fly-by-night operation makes 200 telephone calls. It does notask for money but presents itself. In 100 of these calls they say a certain share price isgoing to rise and in another 100 that it will fall. The calls are repeated on other days butonly to those people with whom the forecast proved to be correct. Before Friday, with thethird round of calls, only a dozen clients are left, but all of them seek to make investmentswith those whose forecasts were correct three times running.
